Who Are the Great Living Directors

Director Peter Weir once said that to be considered a great director you have to make three great movies. Not good, not very good, not even objectively “great,” but so great that you can feel it, where the audience walks out feeling as if their molecules have been rearranged.

I think Richard Linklater, having come close to the magic three on a few occasions, has finally unequivocally reached that plateau with “Boyhood.” (His other greats are the first two “Before” movies.)

Who else, among the living directors, working either here or overseas, do you believe to have made three great films — and who are those directors, and what are the films?